In this episode of Sailing A B Sea we're on the Greek island of Samos, the birthplace of Pythagoras and as we explore we make a dicey 300m climb to a famous ...

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This little path is fairly steep, fairly

narrow, the drops off the side are deadly

if you drop, so if this place were busy

and people were coming up and down

constantly I could see how this would be

a little bit frightening for some people

It is Monday morning and we're up with the birdies. We

have rented a car from a very Greek

sounding bloke called Jones Car Rentals.

John also rents out scooters and

motorbikes but we figured that it's

gonna be a) safer to be in a car and b)

less chance of getting sunstroke because

it's pretty hot and it's gonna be a sunny

day today without many clouds. And here

is a chariot a Chevrolet Matiz

1 litre 66 horsepower, pretty much the

same sized engine as we've got in the

boat. Let's see how she goes

Now you may be wondering why we're sitting

in a Greek Taverna drinking beer when we

really should be trying to look for a 55

millimetre socket - and it's not the end

of the segment! And it's not the end of

one of our segments true. Well this

little beauty is proving to be a big

challenge on the Greek island of Samos

And we've even been to the capital city of

Samos - nowhere has a socket that size

which is 55 millimetres. We've been to

plumbers shops we've been to a big

hardware store that had pretty much

everything else, a mechanics, we've been

everywhere. But the good news is we did

manage to buy two rubber o-rings so I

always like to buy one and keep one as a

spare so we've got two rubber o-rings

for this but of course they're pretty

useless because we don't have access to

a 55 millimetre socket anymore to be

able to remove the one that's in the unit

to put the o-ring on to really make it a

water tight fit. It's only got a very

very very very small leak so I

think what will probably happen is we

will organise for whoever's the first

person to visit us to have one delivered

to them

and they can bring it out in their

luggage. So meanwhile this is a

continuing saga on A B Sea. This is too and we'll

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Every restaurant we go to

that has their napkins folded like this

Aannsha tries to be - who was that guy that pulled the tablecloths out from

everything? I have no idea. Aannsha tries to be the

guy who pulls the tablecloth out from

under everything and leaves everything on the

table. Go ahead do your party trick, go on.

Just one. Just one!

I can't believe it worked!

You lucky lucky lucky bastard!

See it always works! No it doesn't always work.

Every time she does it normally serviettes go everywhere!

Bugger!

After checking out the view from Vourliotes, we headed back to the coast road

and headed on west towards New Karlovasi.

After driving down a road that

looked okay on the map it turned out to

be a bit bumpy so we turned back. Sat-nav

says it runs out but this map says but

it continues but it's a bit dodgy it's

the car that I'm worried about. Yeah me too. It's a very

small engine, not a lot of clearance.

How are we gonna turn around? I can turn this thing around. Okay.

So we turned back

towards New Karlovasi

and when we got there we turned right

towards Lekka

because we were on a journey to find a special cave.

We are in the mountainous area of the

west end of the Greek island of Samos

and we're about to climb way up there to

visit a cave. The cave isn't very spectacular

we've heard, the views are nice, but why

we're going is because this cave used to

be the hideout of a person that pretty

much everyone who's ever been to school

anywhere in the world will have heard of.

Pythagoras! Mmm he found this cave, hid

out here from persecution from the

government in the day. I think it was 75

or 79 when he died and something round

about 435 BC yeah I think he actually had

to flee from here as well. Yeah anyway

onwards and upwards let's see how far

this takes us.

It's quite obvious that the horses come up

and down here many times a day because

there's an awful lot of horse poop around

Luckily once again we're visiting a

tourist attraction in the off season - it's

just coming up to the end of May and

this little path - I'm glad I've stopped

here because I'm a bit out of breath -

this little path it's fairly steep, fairly

narrow, the drops off the side are deadly

if you drop, so if this place were busy

and people were coming up and down

constantly I can see how this would be a

little bit frightening for some people

but you do get some great views... Yep

a bit of a drop-off from the side of the path there

Holy crap

I'm sure these steps weren't here when

Pythagoras found this place - how did he

get up here?

That was a climb up but I'm not looking forward to the climb down actually.

Yeah I was thinking that too

For obvious reasons the back end of the

cave is fenced off coz if I shine my

torches down there that's a bit of a

drop-off. So as caves go this is not a

particularly spectacular cave and

apparently this is not the cave that

Pythagoras actually lived in, he only

taught people in here. The cave that he

lived in is slightly higher up on a

slightly different path which does

require a little bit of scrambling to

get to. We might take a look at it and

see if it's worth the scramble but we'll

have a look around.

Just off to the side

of the small cave that we looked at is

another little entrance and it does say

that permission is needed to go in here

but seeing as it's off season and nobody's

around to tell me I can't, I'm gonna have

a quick look-see

Wow it's definitely cooler in here.

I can actually see my breath

I'm gonna guess you've got to be properly

kitted out and equipped for the descent

down into that part of the cave but this

is quite big.

There's a little bit of a

church here. How nice

How good's this?

And that white vehicle down on the road

is our rental vehicle.

Baz has just

returned from a short expedition. Would

you like to tell us where you've been

and why he came back so soon Baz?

I don't like heights. We're on our way down

now as you can see from the sweat. As you're

coming up to the cave if you look down

at the steps and see this red semicircle

shape and then look it to the right, on

the rock you will see a red arrow and

the red arrow points to a narrow

scrabbly sort of path and that path will

take you all the way to the true

Pythagoras cave. It's not for the

faint-hearted, I stuck my neck up there

and have a look, it did get a bit

vertical and it did have very steep

drop-offs and the path was literally

that wide so I gave up on that, but if

you are bold adventurous and you're not

afraid of heights

the real Pythagoras cave is that way.

Meanwhile we are going that way

Back to the car.

After our daring hike up the mountain to see

Pythagoras's cave we drop down to the

southern bay of Marathokambos where we

stopped at Kerkis Bay Tavern and had lunch

Well we've just traveled all around Samos

island and the one place that I really

wanted to go and see was the Efpaulinio

Tunnel and it's shut. It's closed. Today's

Monday the sign says it closed, it's not open on

Tuesday. So therefore we're going to

assume it's not open yet. It'll cost you 8

euros to go in and they advise if you are

claustrophobic, subject to panic attacks,

overweight, unsteady on your feet ...

Well I just had a look at the entrance

which is gated up and it's literally

that wide. so ... it does get wider in part

and most of it is actually 1.8

metres tall and almost a metre wide so

most of it is big there are just small

sections that you've got to squeeze

through but we won't be squeezing

anywhere because it's closed. No it's a real

shame because it was erm - we brought

torches and everything - yeah we did it

was constructed

a long time ago and they they built the

tunnel from two ends and they actually

met in the middle which you know they're

not always assured of doing in this day

and age so it was an amazing feat in

those days. And the whole purpose of it

was to bring water from a different

section that had a lot of water to the

town of Pythagoria. There's a nice view here - over

here we've got the airport and a little

bit of a wetland thing going on, then

there's some ruins there and a castle

there and you can see our house from

here yeah, well you can see the mast

How did that cat get in? Did

you pay your 8 euros pal? Yeah, I'm talking to you.

Did you pay your 8 euros to get in there

it's closed today. We're going to call you Honey.

If you'd been at the

other little place you could have

had some of Baz's fish because he had

such a big plate full we couldn't eat it all

I know. Yeah. Meow. Wrong place, wrong time puddy.

It's not all work and no

play on board A B Sea because that would

make Jack a dull boy. We do actually take

time out to go ashore and check out the

local area and Pythagorio on the Greek

island of Samos was beautiful

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